Spending on ChatGPT has leveled off in Europe, according to a new report from Deutsche Bank. The number of paying users hasn't grown since May 2025, even though the service reports 800 million weekly users worldwide. Free alternatives like Google AI Mode and Perplexity may be slowing down the growth of paid subscriptions. OpenAI is already exploring ways to monetize free users, possibly through advertising or commission-based sales links.
Similarweb data shows that ChatGPT's largest European markets are the United Kingdom (4.2 percent), France, and Germany (3.2 percent each). ChatGPT has now overtaken Disney Plus in Europe and brings in nearly half as much revenue as Spotify. If the pace holds, ChatGPT could surpass Spotify in 2027 and Netflix in 2028.
Hugging Face has launched HuggingChat Omni, an AI router that selects the best open source model for each user prompt from more than 100 available models. The system automatically chooses the fastest, cheapest, or most suitable model for each task, using an approach similar to the new GPT-5 router. Supported models include gpt-oss, qwen, deepseek, kimi, and smolLM.
Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue says HuggingChat Omni is just the beginning. The platform already offers access to more than two million open models, spanning not only text, but also images, audio, video, biology, chemistry, time series, and more.
The routing system is built on Arch-Router-1.5B from Katanemo, a lightweight 1.5 billion-parameter model that classifies queries by topic and action. Arch-Router claims it outperforms other models at matching human preferences and is fully open source. Details are available in the research paper on arXiv.
